A survey of the cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, and Peterborough
containing an history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions; endowments, alienations, sales of land, patronages; dates of consecration, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epitaphs of the bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, subdeans, archdeacons, and prebendaries, in every stall belonging to them : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese; distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries; to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them and to what religious houses appropriated : the whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see, old wills, records in the Tower, and Rolls Chapel : and illustrated with twelve curious draughts of the iconographies, uprights, and other prospects of these cathedrals, newly taken to rectify the erroneous representations of them in the monasticon, and other authors
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Publication
1730 - Printed for R. Gosling, at the Mitre and Crown near St. Dunstan's Church Fleet-Street, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
148,000 words, Guess
Page Count
592 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesurveyofcathedra00will
- OCLC Control Number7106771
- OCLC Control Number370346050
- Open LibraryOL27912810M
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- A survey of the cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, and Peterborough: containing an history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions; endowments, alienations, sales of land, patronages; dates of consecration, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epitaphs of the bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, subdeans, archdeacons, and prebendaries, in every stall belonging to them : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese; distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries; to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them and to what religious houses appropriated : the whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see, old wills, records in the Tower, and Rolls Chapel : and illustrated with twelve curious draughts of the iconographies, uprights, and other prospects of these cathedrals, newly taken to rectify the erroneous representations of them in the monasticon, and other authors
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